Patents by Inventor Frank Backer

Frank Backer has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6406650
    Abstract: A spinning apparatus for producing a plurality of yarns, wherein the yarns are produced by combining a plurality of filament bundles. To this end, the spinning apparatus includes a plurality of extruders for producing a plurality of melt flows, which are distributed by a plurality of distributor pumps to at least two spinning positions that are arranged side by side. Each of the spinning positions includes a plurality of spinnerets, which extrude a partial flow from a distributor pump to a filament bundle. Also, the spinning positions are arranged so that at least one filament bundle of one spinning position can be combined to a yarn with at least one filament bundle of an adjacent spinning position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: Barmag AG
    Inventors: Hans-Rochus Gross, Jorg Hegenbarth, Frank Bäcker
  • Patent number: 6378180
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for spinning and crimping a multifilament yarn, and wherein a thermoplastic melt is extruded through a spinneret to form a filament bundle. The filament bundle is divided into a plurality of bundle components before being crimped. Each bundle component is separately crimped and combined to a multifilament yarn after being crimped. The yarn is subsequently wound to a package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Barmag AG
    Inventors: Mario Maranca, Frank Bäcker, Hans-Rochus Gross
  • Publication number: 20010038159
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for spinning and crimping a multifilament yarn, and wherein a thermoplastic melt is extruded through a spinneret to form a filament bundle. The filament bundle is divided into a plurality of bundle components before being crimped. Each bundle component is separately crimped and combined to a multifilament yarn after being crimped. The yarn is subsequently wound to a package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2001
    Publication date: November 8, 2001
    Applicant: METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPINNING AND CRIMPING A MULTIFILAMENT YARN
    Inventors: Mario Maranca, Frank Backer, Hans-Rochus Gross
  • Patent number: 6141843
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method of stuffer box crimping a synthetic multifilament yarn, wherein the yarn is advanced in a conveying nozzle by means of a heated conveying gas into a stuffer box and compressed to a yarn plug. At the outlet of the stuffer box, a pair of rolls form a conveying gap for advancing the yarn plug and which has a width smaller than the cross section of the plug leaving the stuffer box so as to compress the yarn plug. The internal passage of the stuffer box is constructed with a cross section that increases in the direction of advance in such a manner that no significant cohesive force develops on the yarn plug, and the resistance to the forward pressure in the yarn plug resulting from the heated conveying gas is provided essentially only by the force on the yarn plug generated by its compression in the conveying gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Assignee: Barmag AG
    Inventors: Jorg Hegenbarth, Klaus Gerhards, Frank Backer